02-10-2009, 14:52
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PT question
I realize I am new here. I just have one question. I am 32 years old, and scored 282 on my most recent APFT ( 75 sit ups, 65 push ups, and a little under 14:00 on the run). Is this a good score compared to PT in SFAS? It's around 270 or so in the 17-21 age group. I do PT all the time, including ruck marches. I just want to make sure I am prepared for when I go to SFAS in April.
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02-10-2009, 15:21
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I realize I am new here. I just have one question. I am 32 years old, and scored 282 on my most recent APFT ( 75 sit ups, 65 push ups, and a little under 14:00 on the run). Is this a good score compared to PT in SFAS? It's around 270 or so in the 17-21 age group. I do PT all the time, including ruck marches. I just want to make sure I am prepared for when I go to SFAS in April.
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I don't know, is that the very best that you can do?
I recommend more PT time on the Search button.
You think we may have discussed PT and SFAS here before during the past five years?
You might start with the stickies.
TR
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02-10-2009, 15:24
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Are you sure you're going in April?
I passed SFRE back in Fall AND already had a security clearance... and despite busting my ass and nagging my chain every other day I'm still probably not going until at least April or most likely May.
I'm also in the NG so that might have something to do with it. But unless you have orders you may be in for a longer wait than you think.
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02-10-2009, 20:09
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The recruiter came out here and met me. He told me I could pick which month I wanted to go ( Feb, Mar, Apr). So I told him April.
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02-10-2009, 20:51
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What's the start day for the April SFAS out of curiosity? I'm hoping I can make it in under the wire for that one.
Didn't you have to take an SF physical?
I don't know how different the NG is about it than AD. We have to pre-screen to get into the unit by running a PFT, ruck, and O-Course, then the unit sends us to SFAS after we have our clearances settled, physicals done, etc
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02-10-2009, 20:59
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Are you familar with staying on topic and the PM system for sidebar discussions?
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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02-10-2009, 21:10
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Im sorry I was just trying to answer his question.
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02-10-2009, 21:11
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NO!
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Originally Posted by OIFVET
I realize I am new here. I just have one question. I am 32 years old, and scored 282 on my most recent APFT ( 75 sit ups, 65 push ups, and a little under 14:00 on the run). Is this a good score compared to PT in SFAS? It's around 270 or so in the 17-21 age group. I do PT all the time, including ruck marches. I just want to make sure I am prepared for when I go to SFAS in April.
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You need to be shooting for 300 ALL THE TIME!
Stay safe.
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02-10-2009, 21:13
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Yes I know. I understand that. I have been working on PT all the time. My most recent PT test was in October.
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02-10-2009, 21:15
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Oh Lord!
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Im sorry I was just trying to answer his question.
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Some things are better left un-said and just executed.... 
Stay safe.
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02-10-2009, 21:16
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Sorry, your right.
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02-10-2009, 21:20
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Yes I know. I understand that. I have been working on PT all the time. My most recent PT test was in October.
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It's February now and your score should have improved?
If it has NOT? Then I would highly suggest that, you spend more time PTing and less time on the computer.
Stay safe.
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02-10-2009, 21:26
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Your "situational awareness" (SA) sucks!
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Sorry, your right.
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Just go do some PT....
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02-16-2009, 00:37
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Training for the Army PT test is a crock of shit on the battlefield currently. One of the largest lessons learned from the killing fields of Afganistan now a days is that the Army's physical training program has failed. Training for a PT test does not help a soldiers conditioning in the current fight in the current theatre anyway. Train for a PT test and you train to Fail!
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03-05-2009, 21:19
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Hello
My name is Brandon, i didnt think i needed to start a new thread about the same question. here is my PT question.
im a sophmore in high school right now, and i want to become an 18A Special Forces. Just looking for some opinions on my PT scores as a sophmore in H.S
Push Ups (1 min):78
Sit Ups (1 min): 79
Pull Ups: 10
1 1/2 mile: 9:34
how am i lookin so far?
these were my latest PT competition scores.
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